Actually, I missed the thread too but I am familiar with the theory - I think.

There was a huge and hilarious dust-up about it some time ago (the plane on a treadmill, not the helicopter with a blender under it - I just threw that in there because helicopters are inherently evil and fly due to a perverse application of the dark side of physics). Coulda been months, coulda been years; it all kind of runs together around here. Either way, the thread was epic.

To those of you who took my comments seriously, y'all need to spit the hook out of your mouths.

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A gun is like a parachute. If you need one and don't have one, you'll probably never need one again.

NASA spent years and millions of dollars trying to produce a ballpoint pen that would write upside down. The Soviet Union had their Cosmonauts use pencils.

While the Soviets did indeed train dogs to carry mines to blow up German tanks, those mines were often magnetic. They stopped using dogs when they learned to the dogs could not tell the difference between German and Soviet tanks.

I read that the ruskies using pencils was false. The concern being that if a pencil tip snapped off, it would create a hazard to the crew and instruments in the spacecraft.

There was a huge and hilarious dust-up about it some time ago (the plane on a treadmill, not the helicopter with a blender under it - I just threw that in there because helicopters are inherently evil and fly due to a perverse application of the dark side of physics). Coulda been months, coulda been years; it all kind of runs together around here. Either way, the thread was epic.

To those of you who took my comments seriously, y'all need to spit the hook out of your mouths.

If you happen to find a link to that thread can you post it? I get the idea but it sounds like it may have hit Bravia-and-jacked-up-teef levels of epicness.

In 2006, a prisoner got himself a job in prison repairing mail bags, and he climbed inside one and mailed himself out of prison.

In the 1980s, Pablo Escobar’s Medellin Cartel was spending $2,500 a month on rubber bands just to hold all their cash.

In 1916 a Salt Lake City company figured out the cheapest way to send 40 tons of bricks to Vernal Utah was to wrap each individually and send parcel post. Regulations were quickly changed to address this issue